New Maekawa House - It's Value and Future
The New Maekawa House was built in 1974 and has been used for the past 35 years as a residence, first as Kunio Maekawa's last house and after that as a rental property. Around 2 years ago the house was going to put into the market thus increasing the risk of it being demolished. The location and size of the plot it sits in attract developers.
Through the involvement of our company (around 1 1/2 years ago) we have been able to open a time window in order find a way to keep the house either as a rental house or other viable use. Now due to the end of the present lease contract this year, we have the chance of showing the house and raise the awareness of its value through the organization of the seminar, with the ultimate aim of keeping the building as long as its possible.
- Juan Ordonez, Int'l Assoc. AIA
| Date : |
May,23rd 2010 |
| Time : |
3:00pm - 5:30pm
(Doors open at 2:45) |
| Seminar : |
3:00pm - 4:30pm (in Japanese only) |
House tour :
(1st floor only) |
4:30pm - 5:30pm |
| Location : |
New Maekawa House-Meguro-Tokyo (5 minutes from Meguro Station) |
| Note : |
Application is from 04/01 to 05/09
Send a message to: Mori Sakura Office (morisakura@nifty.com)
The message should include;
Applicants name, work position, company, telephone and mail address.
The attendance is limited to 50 people, therefore applicants will be chosen by a raffle.
Chosen applicants will ne notified by email on 05/14 |
| Host : |
Community Housing Ltd. |
| Support : |
Maekawa Architecture Office,
Marybeth Stock, Saito Sadamu |
| Event Organizer : |
Matsukuma Hiroshi, Mori Sakura |
There will be 3 guests that will deliver the following talks:
1-Hiroyuki Suzuki (Architectural historian from Tokyo University is now professor at Aoyama Gakuin University and Emerit professor at Tokyo University)
We expect Suzuki san to present the work of Maekawa in general and about Maekawa's two residences that are still kept in Tokyo
2-Yoshinori Yokoyama (Architect from Tokyo University and Harvard GSD, MIT MBA)
Yokoyama san was a member of the architects staff at the Maekawa office, now he is involved in the fields of business management and business education at Orix, Mitsui Sumitomo Financial Group, Tokyo University Business Management Program amongst others.
We expect Yokoyama san to give his impressions about the preservation of modern business and it's business implications (viability, etc)
3-Hiroshi Matsukuma (Architectural historian from Tokyo University)
Matsukuma san was a member of the architects staff at the Maekawa office, now he is a professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology and he is also involved with research and writing on modern architecture.
Matsukuma san will give his insights about the work of Maekawa as well as the case for conservation of modern buildings in Japan.
It is expected that after the talks there can be a good discussion about the topic of conservation of modern buildings in Japan, specifically the ones produced by the Maekawa Office.
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